Neuwert (Reinwald-2)
Johann Christian Neuwart married on 30 April 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck to Catharina Barbara Büring [Beringer].
Johannes [sic] Neuwirth, a farmer, his wife Katharina Barbara, and son Christoph (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 32 along with the Böhringer stepchildren (Ludwig, age 9; Regina, age 17; Elisabeth, age 13; Sarah, age 5; Johann Jakob, age 2). They had arrived there on 14 July 1767.
Widow Katharina Barbara Neuwert and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw40.
Johann[es] Neuwirt, son of Johann Neuwirt, is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 40 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Neuwert came from the town of Schleswig in the Holstein region.
- 1811 Reinwald Census (Household No. 40).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rw07, Rw40.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #8.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 38.
Brent Mai